Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 134 174
Rank change year-on-year -39 +40 -46
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 34 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.44% 0.43% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.23% 1.85% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 2
10th Percentile £58,375 £57,500 £40,550
25th Percentile - £65,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +60.19% -13.48%
75th Percentile - £86,250 £58,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,500 £61,650
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 804 541 964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.42% 23.16% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 609 315 500
10th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GCP
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) iPaaS
4 3 (8.82%) n8n
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) DHCP
1 8 (23.53%) DNS
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
1 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
1 8 (23.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Integration Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Support Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Magento Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (11.76%) Node.js
2 4 (11.76%) SOAP
2 4 (11.76%) Visualforce
3 3 (8.82%) CSS
3 3 (8.82%) Electron
3 3 (8.82%) FastAPI
3 3 (8.82%) Flask
3 3 (8.82%) JWT
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth
3 3 (8.82%) React
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
1 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (35.29%) AI
3 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) Change Management
4 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven
4 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (26.47%) High Availability
4 9 (26.47%) System Testing
5 8 (23.53%) Agile
5 8 (23.53%) Business Continuity
5 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 8 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (23.53%) Server Building
5 8 (23.53%) Server Management
5 8 (23.53%) Server Monitoring
6 7 (20.59%) DevOps
6 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (17.65%) Webhook
8 5 (14.71%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 4 (11.76%) Apex Code
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.82%) SOQL
5 3 (8.82%) SOSL
6 1 (2.94%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Hyper-V
1 8 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 5 (14.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (11.76%) YouTube
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk